Chrome has eliminated the classic avatar menu?
Like many web developers, I maintain numerous profiles in Google Chrome to test web applications. When doing these tests, it is important to quickly determine which profile I am using when interacting with Chrome. I depended on the classic Chrome avatar menu to signal the current profile. For months, Chrome was using a new profiles menu by default, which only displayed the current username in the text (no avatar image). Until today, it was possible to revert to using the classic avatar menu by navigating to the chrome: // flags and then disabling Enable New Profile Management System. Now it has no effect. I was wondering if there might possibly be some other way to enable the classic avatar menu so that my web development tests can still work.
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This is unfortunately a design decision from Google and it looks like they are sticking with it. When this happened, I (like you) set the flag and was able to use the legacy icons, but as of this morning, the flag itself was disabled.
Further reading (follow links to related questions): https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=512699
I don't know how good that is, but starring the problem and leaving a polite, detailed comment on question # 451920 is a good place to start.
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